Monday, 14 September 2026

Comic Cuts Podcast Stats


Season Two of Comic Cuts The Panel Show continues to rumble on, with me managing to release a new episode every fortnight right through the summer and into the autumn. Whether it's setting the world alight listener-wise it's hard to tell. Well, actually, not that hard if I look at the statistics. Which we shall do together now. Here comes a table of the episodes of Comic Cuts The Panel Show, in Top Of The Pops reverse chart order, with stats for audio episodes, video episodes, and improvement since I last measured them on June 6th.

    .   GuestsSeries/ EpisodeAudio downloadsIncrease since JunVideo views
1Jeevani Charika & Alan Snow1:18308+36
2Alan Moore & Steve Moore 19822:07295+110292
3Emma Byrne & PJ Holden1:17257+438
4Juliette Burton & Gary Northfield1:12253+444
5Brian Bolland & Rianne Rowlands 1:10247+6168
6Adam Roche & Hannah Berry1:13243+17158
7Doug Segal & Iszi Lawrence1:01205+230
8Louise Leigh & Ashley Storrie1:04202+36
9Sonia Leong & Nigel Parkinson1:02        174+373
10Mike Collins & Ali Cook2:06166+7627
11Peter Hogan & Bethany Black1:03161+323
12Nerine Skinner & Steve Noble1:15153+3326
13Nigel Auchterlounie & Laura Howell1:06150+2159
14Rachael Smith & Paul Kerensa1:14150+31
15Laura Watton & David Leach1:08149+359
16Jessica Martin & Wil Hodgson1:05143+371
17Dean Friedman & Juliet Myers1:09139+361
18Metaphrog1:11138+529
19Jaleela Galbraith & Okse1:07133+4109
20Bennett Arron & Susan Murray1:16131+431
21Comic Cuts Trailer1:00128+2-
22Steve Dillon Interview 19822:00114+335
23Scott Agnew & Mitch Benn2:0180+937
24Davey Jones & Andre Vincent2:0976+3767
25Liz Million & Rich Johnston2:0865+1423
26Steve Otis Gunn & Andrew O'Neill2:1160new29
27Louisa Gummer & Paulus2:0259+217
28Margaret Cabourn Smith & Ian Moore2:1056new38
29Helen Quigley & Paul Savage2:0453+429
30Dan McDaid & Sapphira Olson2:1252new70
31Alex Milway & Marc Jackson2:0351+57
32Shelly Bond & Davy Francis2:1349new31
33Angie Belcher & Roland Moore2:0547+410
34Howard Read & Spring Day2:1439new56
35Charmian Hughes & Pau Scorpi2:1531new40
36Wendy Wason & Alasdair Beckett King2:16-new-
37tbc2:17-new-
38tbc2:18-new-
39tbc2:19-new-
40tbc2:20-new-

So some very interesting stats there. The big highlights being:

• The Alan Moore & Steve Moore interview from 1982 being far and away the most listened to episode of the new season, continuing to attract listeners all the time. And being the second most watched video, despite having no actual video content.

• Mike Collins & Ali Cook adding listeners all the time, while mostly episodes from the new season stop getting big numbers after their first week or so.

• Adam Roche and Hannah Berry being the biggest growing episode of season one, continuing to bump themselves up the chart.

• Those video stats, in particular Nerine Skinner & Steve Noble, whose unedited video version has outstripped even Alan Moore, with 326 views. 

It's worth remembering that, with every episode getting at least an additional 3 downloads every couple of months, this explains why the Jeevani Charika/Alan Snow and Emma Byrne/PJ Holden eps are so high up the chart, because they were each, for a long time, the last episode released, and sat there attracting all our first-time listeners over the four or five years the podcast was inactive. Likewise almost all of season one has more listeners than season two. This will change over time.

Onwards and upwards, more episodes are in production, and show little sign of stopping quite yet.

Saturday, 12 September 2026

Book Sales September


Just a few of the many faces I drew, out of just under 200 drawn across two days at the Cardiff Showmasters comicon. The deal is "you don't have to have it if you don't want it, let's see how it comes out..." and a minute later, when I've drawn it, "it'd be two quid, or free with anything on my table." The pile of pictures in the Couldn't Afford Two Quid club was reassuringly small.

Live events / classes et al  x books + x comics (£x)
(August 136 + 32, £1665; July 98 + 20, £1141; June 111 books + 17 comics, £1313; May 72, £862.90; April 185, £2111.54; March 181, £2153.41)
D2D -  x books ($x)  
(Aug = 14, $12.33; July = 84*, $27.65; June = 4, $5.42; May = 7, $8.09; April = 12, $13.54; March = 54, $74.79)
Etsy - x books (£x)      
(Aug = 4, £23.77; July = 7, £56.97; June = 1, £7.99; May 6, £50.95; April 2, £8.98; March 4, £32.96)
Lulu - x books (£x)   
(Aug = 4, £5.03; July 2, £1.43; June 4, £7.79; May 6, £12, April 6, £6.91; March 7, £6.11)
Blurb - x book, £x     
(Aug = 1, £1.26; July = 0; June 1, $1.68; May 0, April 0, March 1, 61p)
Podcast downloads - x    
(Aug 205, July 188, June 259, May 278, April 164, March 96)
Blog views  - x  
(Aug 201,519, July 293,000, June 497,446; May 365,397, April 340,000, March 300,000)
Youtube views  - x, subs x    
(Aug 2032, subs 4982 ; July  3555, subs 4977; June 2070, subs 4973)

*******

LIVE SALES

Sat Sept 12 - Cardiff Showmasters - 25 books + carics (£335)

3 x Romeo col
1 x Richard col
3 x FM
2 x MNDT
1 x Omnibus
5 x Space Elain col
9 x Colouring books:
- 6 x Doctors (sold out)
- 2 x Cult TV
- 1 x Punk

Sun Sept 13 - Cardiff day 2 - 16 books, 2 comics + carics (£267)

1 x Romeo bw
1 x Richard col
1 x Richard bw
2 x PODS
1 x MNDT
1 x Tales From Bible col
8 x Colouring books:
- 3 x 2020s (sold out)
- 2 x Cult TV
- 2 x Bowie
- 1 x 80s Superstar 

more to come


Tuesday, 8 September 2026

AI at Yorkshire Sculpture Park furore

Hev & I enjoyed a fab day out at Yorkshire Sculpture Park at the weekend, seeing lots of marvellous art and enjoying summer weather (which we're constantly thinking will be the last day of the summer). As part of the day, I noticed there was AI art on show as a part of a show in one of the galleries. So I posted about it on Facebook. Oh dear.


 I wrote

I hate to be the person who claims there’s AI art on show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, but there’s AI art on show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Update: There’s been an instagram post from the artist, included below.
Update: Turning off comments now
These sculptures by Annie Montgomerie are pleasant and very clearly hand made, but they’re standing on plinths decorated with AI that (to my eye) screams AI. Check them out.
See the gibberish words on the mouse behind M for Monkey? The crazy ear on the rabbit behind A for Alpaca? Or the mutated dog behind D for Dog? If those aren’t generative AI art I’ll be amazed.
All works are on sale, for thousands of pounds, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, a respected art establishment. Today in AI.


This got lots of responses. In fact, if I'm reading this chart below correctly, my post was viewed by 181,700 people and has, somehow, earned me $23.51, and I do not know how, or whether I'll actually receive that. 


This was not, of course the reason I posted it. I posted it to draw attention to AI art in places where I, possibly self-righteously, don't think it should be appearing. I also hoped Yorkshire Sculpture Park would be made aware of it and perhaps mark it as AI art. This is I think my position: AI art is a tool people will use, and we should be told when they have. I don't like it, but I can't stem its tide.

What I didn't want was a pile-on onto the artist. It turns out it was the artist's daughter that supplied the AI plinth art, and the artist posted on Instagram in response:


Annie Montgomerie Art

There has been a lot of unkindness about the display blocks for my exhibition at YSP. When I was creating this exhibition I experienced some very hard situations and had a complete breakdown. I’m still recovering now with anxiety and depression. The comments about ai has snowballed this morning. My daughter kindly helped with the display and I wanted them to look like vintage picture blocks. I am so sorry if I have offended anyone with the ai used (this was used only for the blocks and not the posters or anything else). Please accept my apologies and please no more hate comments. I will not use ai in my displays in the future. My actual work takes days to make with every intricate detail coming from my hands and heart.

Some of the posts on my Facebook did become quite vitriolic, and as ever the views are polarised. You can see the whole post and comments here:



Hopefully the affair has blown over now. I am sorry that my post seems to have led to a spate of online bullying of an artist and her daughter, and I hope that this will stop. 

Hopefully Yorkshire Sculpture Park will address the situation, label AI art accordingly, and perhaps comment on their position on the inclusion of AI art under their remit.

Meanwhile onwards and upwards. I'll keep spotting AI art, and peoples opinions on it will remain divided.

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